Firsts Quotes · Page 788

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a…

— John Irving

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the…

— Delia Smith

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove.…

— Dolph Lundgren

The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base…

— Henry A. Kissinger

the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace.…

— Frances Mayes

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

— Richard L. Gordon

THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I…

— Janet Evanovich

Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me…

— Alexander Hamilton

After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was…

— LaVell Edwards

I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the…

— Julie James

Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do…

— Hesiod

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that…

— Anonymous

We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they`re charging fair…

— Chris Hayes

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety…

— Elizabeth I

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this…

— Donald Johanson

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are…

— Gordon Livingston

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

— Tom Waits

We need to get good processes in place, we need to use them, and then we need to impose good sanctions that…

— Michele Landis Dauber

The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting…

— Sarah Dessen

She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.

— Rush Limbaugh

Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or…

— Frederick Lenz

When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went…

— Cynthia Nixon

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

— J. B. Smoove

In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn't come anywhere close to…

— Sam Neill

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware…

— Neil Gaiman

How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as…

— Daniel L. Akin

The best way to apologize is to let the customer vent first. Don't interrupt, just take notes and make empathetic noises. You…

— Jeffrey Gitomer

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

— Kumar Mangalam Birla

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

— William Caxton

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after…

— Nadia Giosia

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

— Vincent de Paul

Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.

— Reinhard Bonnke

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire…

— Plotinus

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

— Ayelet Waldman

I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what?…

— Billy Joel

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

— Jack Nicklaus

First of all, Vickie's wearing purple. She looks like Barney.

— Matt Striker

It's going to be crazy. The fans in Venezuela are tough. They scream. We get to face the Dominicans in the first…

— Freddy Garcia

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done…

— Bobby Seale